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03/11/2011
NOM guy says we're pushing society 'into the abyss'. But in the nice, loving way, mind you.
An account of last night's Rhode Island Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on marriage equality:
Joseph Cavanagh, a providence attorney and a member of the National Organization for Marriage in Rhode Island, warned that redefining marriage would have a devastating effect on society. “I can think of no other legislative action that would push us further into the abyss” said Cavanagh, “it has been the ideal way of society since the beginning of time.”
Fr. Bernard Healey, speaking on behalf of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence, said that the church’s opposition to gay marriage was not rooted in hate or bigotry, but was simply a matter of defending the right to have marriage between a man and a woman recognized as a distinct and special entity. “Union between husband and wife is a distinct vocation, and using the law to alter or to redefine marriage is an injustice to those who have embraced this state in life and negates the long history of benefit,” Healey declared.
NEW: Senate Committee Holds Hearing on Gay Marriage Bills [Go Local Prov]
So we get NOM's guy saying our love is devastating. Suggesting that our equality will push America not only down a slop or off a cliff, but all the way into an abyss. Painting same-sex marriages as some sort of threats to societal normalcy.
But then we get the Catholic leader denying that animus is at play? And not just any Catholic leader, either but one from the very diocese where Joe Cavanagh himself sits on advisory boards? So what, is "further into an abyss" just Mr. Cavanagh's novel way of saying "to Disney World, where I'll buy everyone an ice cream cone"? His talk of societal destruction some odd act of love? His testimony against us simply an attempt to make us all feel more loved by giving us an opposite pole for comparison?
Because not gonna lie: At face value, we're not feeling the NOMmy goodwill.
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